Alabama: On January 3, , Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon fired and arrested a county jail guard for having oral sex with a detainee at the lockup. As if to prove it true: He was just four days away from release when the short-lived escape extended his prison stay.
Witnesses said Lucky and Scott Kracke, 49, got out of their cars to confront one another on I in Meriden, when the six-year veteran guard opened fire, striking Kracke.
He later died at a hospital. Daniel Noboa claimed on January 13, , that all hostages had been released. Two police officers also were killed. Scott was arrested and resigned in April , after the child reported injuries to his school. At the time, Sheriff T. Waters emphasized the abuse was non-sexual. Two weeks later, Romeo Kei, 30, another guard at the jail, was arrested at home during a domestic disturbance on January 12, He and an unnamed family member who was also arrested blamed each other for the fight, which did not injure any of the children living there, Sheriff Waters said.
Kei had worked there for two years. For killing Vernell Goins, 52, Holms pleaded self-defense, claiming she loved Goins but he was beating her.
Prosecutors said she flew into a rage when Goins wanted to break up because she remained married to another man. They also noted that her son was hospitalized in after she shot him several times while trying to force her way into his home. A jury convicted Holms of manslaughter in October Florida: Mentally ill Broward County Jail detainee Genard Jeffrard, 29, was declared brain-dead on December 26, , 10 days after jail surveillance video captured his brutal minute beat-down by cellmate Kevin Barnes, WTVJ in Miami reported that both men were awaiting competency restoration treatment when Barnes beat the father of a year-old for being gay.
